Claim · model-written summary
Cover crop grazing had no negative effect on corn silage yield, with variable data.
- Taxon
- corn
Zea mays subsp. mayse1 - Treatment
- Cover crop grazinge0
- Outcome
- corn silage yieldse0
- Direction
- no negative effecte0
- Qualifier
- data were variablee0
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Verbatim
e0“Cover crop grazing had no negative effect on corn silage yields although data were variable.”
e1“corn ( Zea mays L.)”
Title
Does cover crop grazing damage soils and reduce crop yields?
Humberto Blanco‐Canqui; Mary E. Drewnoski; Jim C. MacDonald; et al. Agrosystems Geosciences & Environment 2020. doi:10.1002/agg2.20102
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Cattle grazing decreased cereal rye cover crop biomass by 92% versus non-grazed cover crops.
- Intervention effect Grazing did not affect several measured soil physical and chemical properties.
- Intervention effect In year two, grazing reduced cumulative infiltration by 80%.
- Intervention effect In year two, grazing increased soil penetration resistance from 1.23 to 1.72 MPa.
- Recommendation The authors considered cover crop grazing a management option for livestock production.